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Featured Park

South Cumberland State Park

Composed of more than 20,000-acres on the Cumberland Plateau, South Cumberland is noted for its clear cascading streams and waterfalls, natural sandstone bridges, rocky gorges, lush woodlands and spring wildflowers.

Activities

Wild for Wildflowers

Wildflower displays in late spring, early summer can’t be beat! Explore the dazzling, native rhododendrons atop Roan Mountain, look for early blooming Tennessee Coneflowers at Long Hunter or enjoy more than 100 acres of native wildflower fields at Seven Islands. It’s a botanical bonanza!

Cabins

Other Accommodations

Park Restaurants

Designed to satisfy hungry visitors, our eight state park restaurants are great places to enjoy a holiday meal, quench your thirst after an invigorating hike or gather the family for a simple Sunday dinner.

Booker T. Washington State Park

Booker T. Washington State Park is named in honor of the famous leader, Booker Taliaferro Washington. Born into slavery and freed by the age of nine, Washington fought throughout his life to earn a higher education. Washington’s dedication earned him a scholarship into Hampton Normal Agriculture Institute for Freedman in Hampton, Va. He is best known for being former president of the Tuskegee Institute, a black organization for higher education. Washington strongly believed that agriculture and vocational education was the key to advance a newly freed race to a better life and not the pursuit of civil rights.

Situated on the shores of scenic Chickamauga Lake, not far from the city of Chattanooga, is the 353-acre Booker T. Washington State Park. Many visitors enjoy the phenomenal scenery through the challenging, yet rewarding, six-mile mountain biking trail. The park is also equipped with an Olympic size swimming pool that includes a diving board and children’s wading pool. The park has three large picnic pavilions, each accommodating up to 60 people as well as the more than 30 individual picnic sites located throughout the park. Each picnic site is equipped with grills and water spigots nearby. Pavilions may be reserved up to one year in advance.

For more information, please contact Booker T. Washington State Park directly at 423-894-4955.

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